Africa-Press – Cape verde. TICV (which operates under the BestFly Cabo Verde brand) announced this Saturday that all of the company’s flights remain canceled until May 7th. In a statement, the company, majority owned by BestFly World Wide and participated by the State, says it is “working diligently to protect passengers”.
Without explaining the reasons that now dictate the continued suspension of flights, the operator asks passengers to update their contact details using an online form and asks them to avoid going to the airport without confirming a new itinerary, possibly “in flights of the other company that operates domestic routes”.
“For those who prefer to cancel their trips, you can indicate this intention on the same contact form . You can contact your travel agency to proceed with the refund request if this is your wish”, reads the note published in its site.
Today’s information contradicts another, from Thursday, when BestFly announced the arrival of a Bombardier Dash 8 Q300 aircraft, precisely to cover the gap left by the maintenance allegedly ongoing on its two ATR 72-600. Then, the company expected to restart operations “later this week”.
“The entry of this new aircraft will normalize the company’s operations and face the challenges observed in recent weeks”, promised the management.
After weeks of significant disruption, on April 9th, BestFly definitively suspended travel between the islands, with the guarantee of returning to normality soon.
It is recalled that, in 2021, BestFly World Wide purchased 70% of the share capital of TICV from the Spanish company Binter. The remaining 30% remained in the hands of the Cape Verdean State.
With BestFly on the ground, domestic flights are currently operated only by Cabo Verde Airlines (CVA, TACV’s commercial brand), a public company (after renationalization in 2021) that returned in March to a market that it had left, by government decision, in 2017. Without its own fleet to connect the islands, CVA depends on aircraft leased from Air Senegal (1 ATR 72-600) and Global Aviation (1 ATR 72-500), under the ACMI regime (an English acronym for ‘plane, crew, maintenance and insurance’).
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